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• Seattle Storm finds new practice facility at SPU

  
  Queen Anne View — Authority: 479
  Seattle Storm has found a new practice facility at Queen Anne’s own Seattle Pacific University , according to the Seattle Times . Since the Sonics organization added the WNBA Storm in 2000, they have practiced at The Furtado Center across the street from the Seattle Center. In 2005 that site was bought by the ...
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• Business Exchange: Gates Foundation

  
  Business Blog — Authority: 175
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• Gates Foundation commits $12.9M to college tech

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 166
  The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation wants to help community colleges use technology to improve and go beyond basic online classes.
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• Today’s Quotable and Notable

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 604
  Quotable: “Primarily the stimulus in Texas was used to just move dollars around and you didn’t have the level of benefit that the stimulus was designed to create.” -Rep. Jim Dunnam (D-Waco), chair of Texas’s Select Committee on the Federal Economic Stabilization Funding “ Stymied by Stimulus? ” Texas ...
  6 days ago

• US, UN and Islamic group join forces to fight polio

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  New York, Dec 3 (DPA) The US joined the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) and the Unicef to plan a campaign for completely eradicating polio worldwide, it was announced.The three parties met at United Nation’s Children’s Fund (Unicef) headquarters in New York to sponsor the discussion on “joining forces ...
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• The World Top 25 Givers: Why Their Ranking Isn’t Measured by Money, It’s Results That Count

  
  pacificEyeWitness.org — Authority: 143
  Former basketball player Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson, one of the 25 on the world list of top givers,  seen here speaking to journalist Ted Koppel at a forum on HIV/AIDS on Capitol Hill on May 13, 2009 in Washington, DC. Tuesday 1 December marked World Aids Day. Photo by Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images). Content © 2009 ...
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• Gates Foundation Gives $3.4 Million For Library Broadband

  
  WebProNews Feed — Authority: 696
  The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have committed nearly $3.4 million in grants to improve Internet connections for libraries in five states. Nationally, libraries report that demand for high-speed Internet access is growing faster than their ability to provide increased bandwidth. An American Library ...
  1 week ago

• Sage North America embraces project life-cycle management with BIW

  
  Extranet Evolution — Authority: 418
  Yesterday UK collaboration technology vendor BIW Technologies * announced that it had created a hosting infrastructure to support its clients in North America - a network that it expects to grow through a partnership with Sage Construction and Real Estate ( Sage CRE ). This BIW announcement has been forthcoming ...
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• Treat HIV/AIDS as social, developmental issue, say experts (Dec 1 is World AIDS Day)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Bangalore, Nov 30 (IANS) On the eve of World AIDS Day, experts working in the field of HIV-AIDS Monday stressed the need to consider the disease more as a developmental and social issue than a health issue to check its spread.“Now, AIDS is more of a developmental and social problem than a health problem. [...]
  1 week ago

• New video: Bill and Melinda Gates “Meet the Press”

  
  ONE — Authority: 547
  Today NBC aired an interview with Bill and Melinda Gates on “Meet the Press”. David Gregory asked the Gates various questions about global health and poverty issues.Check it out:Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
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• Rick Warren and Bill & Melinda Gates on Meet the Press today

  
  Spiritual Media Blog — Authority: 129
  Today, Meet the Press , will focus their entire show on giving thanks and giving back instead of politics. Rick Warren will be on the show to discuss faith and charity. Then, Microsoft founder Bill Gates along with his wife Melinda, will be on to talk about the work they’ve been doing through their foundation ...
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• Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 29 November 2009

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  The Talk Shows Sunday, November 29th, 2009 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Evan Bayh, D-Ind.; former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark.; Howard Dean, former national Democratic Party chairman; Maj. Gen. Carla Hawley-Bowland, commanding ...
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• Venus Williams new member of the Dream Team for Public Service

  
  WTA Women's Tennis — Authority: 437
  Venus Williams new member of the Dream Team for Public Service Venus Williams was chosen to be a member of the Dream Team for Public Service, NFL legend Ronnie Lott’s team for the Jefferson Award for Public Service. The 10 Dream Team winners recognized are top athletes who have given back to their community. ...
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• Nine Possibilities for Time Magazines "Person of the Year" 2009

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 157
  Original Author:  American007 Its coming up on the end of the year (believe it or not) and I thought it might be some good, lighthearted holiday discussion to think about who or what might be Time Magazines Person of the Year for 2009. There are no real requirements for what a ...
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• Bill and Melinda Gates on “Meet the Press” this Sunday

  
  ONE — Authority: 547
  This Sunday, as part of a program in the spirit of Thanksgiving and giving back, David Gregory will host Bill and Melinda Gates on “Meet the Press” to discuss “the work they’ve been doing through their foundation to improve health and education around the world.” Pastor Rick Warren is also a guest.We’ll ...
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• Memphis City School Receive $90 Million Grant

  
  Clif's Notes — Authority: 121
  “The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [yesterday] announced that it will invest $335 million to support effective teaching as a means to ensure all students receive the education they need to succeed in high school and beyond. [The] announcement includes $290 million in grants to support four Intensive ...
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• Pass it on

  
  ONE — Authority: 547
  As part of the Living Proof Project, the Gates Foundation recently cut this great video highlighting some of the great successes in global health over the years. Check it out, and pass it on:
  2 weeks ago

• President Obama launches “Educate to Innovate” campaign for excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM) education

  
  Courier Times Now — Authority: 156
  Nationwide effort includes over $260 million in public-private investments to move American students to the top of the pack in science and math achievement over the next decade President Obama today launched the “Educate to Innovate” campaign, a nationwide effort to help reach the administration’s goal of ...
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• Medical policy innovation, reduces blindness by a third

  
  INNOVATION. International Journal by 2thinknow. — Authority: 136
  River Blindness (Onchocerciasis) Reduced By Nearly One-Third In At-Risk Populations In Six Countries Progress Represents a Major Step toward the Goal of Interrupting Transmission of River Blindness in the Americas by 2012 WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A regional initiative launched in the 1990s ...
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• Gates Foundation issues statement on USAID Administrator nominee

  
  ONE — Authority: 547
  The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has just issued a statement regarding Dr. Rajiv Shah, President Obama’s selection to be the next USAID Administrator. You can read ONE’s take on the pick here.Gates Foundation statement:The selection of Dr. Rajiv Shah as the next administrator of the United States Agency for ...
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